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MCMANUS,
MICHAEL A Jr. : Files, 1982-1985

Office
of the Deputy Chief of Staff: Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy to
the Deputy Chief of Staff (1982-1983)

Office
of the Deputy Chief of Staff: Assistant to the President and Deputy to the
Deputy Chief of Staff (1983-1985)

Biography

Michael
McManus was born in Boston on March 11, 1943. He grew up in the suburbs of
Boston and New York City. He earned a B.A. degree in Economics from theUniversity of
Notre Dame (1964), and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center
(1967). From 1968 to 1970 he served in the Army, as an attorney stationed at
Fort McNair in Washington, DC. After his discharge, he was an attorney with the
law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft (1970-74)
and the American Freedom Train Foundation (1974-75). From December 1975 to 1977
he worked in the Department of Commerce, as a Regional Representative of the
Secretary of Commerce. He then returned to the private sector, as an attorney
with the pharmaceutical firm Pfizer Inc.

In
April 1982 McManus became the chief assistant to Michael Deaver,
the White House Deputy Chief of Staff. He was assigned to oversee the logistics
of President Reagan’s trip to Versailles, France for the 1982 G-7 Summit of
Industrialized Nations. Once this Summit ended, McManus began work on the 1983
G-7 Summit, for which the United States was the host country. He was the
official leader of the independent group that organized the Summit, which was
held in Williamsburg, Virginia in May 1983. After the Williamsburg Summit,
McManus was promoted from a Deputy Assistant to a full Assistant to the
President. He continued working with the Office of Presidential Advance on
event scheduling and logistics, especially for President Reagan’s overseas
trips. He assisted Mr. Deaver with internal
administrative matters. He dealt with various issues, special projects, and
outside organizations on behalf of Deaver and the
Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff.

In
October 1983, McManus was named the White House liaison on matters pertaining
to the 1984 Republican National Convention. In January 1984 he took on direct
oversight of most aspects of White House communications, as part of a
reorganization of the White House staff undertaken for the 1984 campaign
season. After President Reagan won re-election, McManus became a member of the
advisory board for the 1985 Inaugural, while Deaver
served as Chairman of the 1985 Inaugural Committee.

McManus
left the White House staff effective March 31, 1985. Since then he has held
leadership positions with various corporations in the New York City area,
primarily in the banking and pharmaceutical fields.

Scope and
Content Note

The
material within this collection reflects the intensive nature of planning and
“advancing” Presidential events and trips. Separate series are maintained for
five of the President’s foreign trips, reflecting the large amounts of material
pertaining to these trips and McManus’s key role in planning them. The
trip-based series can include material on advance site visits, event proposals,
lists of event attendees, draft and final trip schedules, and thank-you notes
to people who helped with the trip.

The
collection also reflects the large supervisory role the Office of the Deputy
Chief of Staff acquired after David Gergen, Director
of Communications left the White House staff in late 1983.In effect, the Office was now providing the
strategic guidance for the Office of Communications, Office of Media Relations,
Office of Public Affairs and to some degree the Office
of Speechwriting.McManus took on a
large part of these responsibilities.

The
collection includes material reflecting the Office of Deputy Chief of Staff’s
responsibility for making all the arrangements of the Summit of Industrialized
Nations (G-7) held in Williamsburg, Virginia at the end of May 1983. Michael
McManus was the official head of the independent group organizing the Summit.
While working closely with the Summit group, McManus also retained his White
House job and functions

With
the original McManus collection, we found about 4-5 cubic feet of the specific
records for the Summit of Industrialized Nations independent body.This body was located outside the White House
in Jackson Place and had an Executive Director running day-to-day operations.
We have transferred this material to a created collection for the Summit of
Industrialized Nations. There is some additional McManus work product in the
Summit collection (see separate inventory).

The
remaining material within this collection focuses on the political and ceremonial
functions of the President including fund-raising trips and events; the 1984
Republican Convention in Dallas, Texas, and the 1985 Inaugural. All of these
series are considered “personal” papers of President Ronald Reagan misfiled
within McManus’ presidential records. As such it is processed and made
available under the deed of gift of the President regarding this material.

The
collection is arranged in 11 series. The series are: SERIES I: Subject File,
SERIES II: 1983 Williamsburg Summit, SERIES III: European Trip 1982, SERIES IV:
South and Central American Trip 1982, SERIES V: Far East Trip 1983, SERIES VI:
China Trip 1984, SERIES VII: 1984 Economic Summit – London, England, SERIES
VIII: Events, SERIES IX: 1984 Republican National Convention, SERIES X: 1985
Presidential Inaugural, SERIES XI: Political – General.

Within
the series, most files have been retained in the order in which they initially
came to the Reagan Library. Many such files were originally grouped together,
by broad topic, in large expansion (“accordion”) folders.

DESCRIPTION OF SERIES

SERIES I: SUBJECT FILE, 1982-1985 (5.5 l.ft.,
Boxes 1-14)

This
series contains material relating to a variety of subjects regarding strategic
planning for communicating and presenting the Reagan Administration. It also
includes material on internal administrative matters and “special projects”
which were the responsibility of McManus.

SERIES II: 1983 ECONOMIC SUMMIT, WILLIAMSBURG, VA,
1982-1984

(3.8 l.ft., Boxes 14-24)

This
series contains material relating to initial site selection for the Economic
Summit, Administration events held at potential Summit sites, the budget for
the Summit, Summit expenses and billing, setting up of accommodations,
catering, security concerns, and meeting requirements. Only a few records
pertain to the foreign policy and trade issues addressed during the Summit
meetings.

SERIES III: EUROPEAN TRIP 1982, 1981-1982 (1.2 l.ft.,
Boxes 24-27)

This
series contains material relating to the planning, pre-advance, and final scheduling
for this first European trip that Ronald Reagan took as President (June 2-11,
1982). The trip’s primary purpose was to attend the 1982 Economic Summit
(Summit of Industrialized Nations) at Versailles, France. It was expanded to
include stops in Ireland and Great Britain, a NATO meeting in West Germany, a
visit to NATO headquarters in Brussels, and a visit with the Pope at the
Vatican.

SERIES IV: SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICAN TRIP 1982,
1981-1982

(0.2 l.ft., Box 27)

This
series contains material relating to the planning, pre-advance, and final
scheduling for this trip in which President Reagan visited Brazil, Colombia,
Honduras, and Cost Rica (November 29 – December 4, 1982).

SERIES V: FAR EAST TRIP 1983, 1982-1983 (0.3 l.ft.,
Boxes 27-28)

This series contains material relating
to the planning, pre-advance and final scheduling for this November 1983 trip
to Japan and South Korea. The trip included a visit to the DMZ at the border
between North and South Korea.

SERIES VI: CHINA TRIP, 1984 (0.3 l.ft.,
Box 28)

This
series contains material relating to the planning, pre-advance, and final
scheduling for President Reagan’s 1984 trip to China. The trip included events
in Hawaii and Guam prior to arrival in China, and a meeting with Pope John Paul
II in Alaska on the way back from China.

SERIES VII: 1984 ECONOMIC SUMMIT, LONDON, ENGLAND,
1983-1984.

(0.2 l.ft., Box 29)

This
series contains material relating to the planning, pre-advance, and final
scheduling for this trip to the 1984 Summit of Industrialized Nations. The trip
included a stop in Ireland, where President Reagan reconnected with his Irish
background in Ballyporeen, Ireland. The President
also delivered two speeches in Normandy, France, to commemorate the 40th
anniversary of the World War II D-Day Invasion in June
1944.

SERIES VIII: EVENTS, 1982-1983 (0.9
l.ft. Boxes 29-31)

This
series contains material relating to domestic trips to California, Ohio,
Nevada, Texas, Massachusetts; local events within the Washington, DC area; and
the President’s meeting with President de la Madrid of Mexico in San Diego,
California. The time period for this series is May 1982 to July 1983.The 1982 trips were also used as fundraising
and political promotion of the Reagan Administration for the 1982 Congressional
elections.

SERIES IX: 1984 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION,
1983-1984

(2.6 l.ft., Boxes 31-38)

This
series contains material relating to the pre-planning and advance work done by
Michael Deaver and McManus to assist in staging the
1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas.

SERIES X: 1985 PRESIDENIAL INAUGURAL, (1969-) 1984-1985.

(0.8 l.ft., Boxes 38-40)

This
series contains material relating to the planning for the 1985 Presidential
Inaugural, including reference materials pertaining to past Inaugurals.

SERIES XI: POLITICAL – GENERAL, 1982-1985 (0.3 l.ft.,
Box 40)

This
series contains material relating to political strategy for the off-year 1982
election and the 1984 presidential election. It contains 1984 campaign commercials,
which are housed in our audio-visual holdings area.

CONTAINER LIST

SERIES I:
SUBJECT FILE

Box 1

200th Anniversary of Signing of
Constitution (1)-(3)

American Irish Historical

American Irish Historical: American
Irish Historical Society (1)-(3)

Amway

Amway: Amway – Galtland
07/15/1982

Awards: Presidential Citizens Medal

Awards: Presidential Medal of Freedom

Bailey

Balanced Budget Amendment

Baroody,
Mike

Baroody
Talking Points

Blacks

Brandon, Muffie

FY85 Budget / Economic Report Release
Schedule

Caribbean Basin Initiative

Central America (1)(2)

Administration – Communications

Calendar of Communications Events (1)(2)

Box 2

Calendar of Communications
Plans (1)(2)

Communications Correspondence
(General)

Deaver Communications
Meeting 03/23/1984

Deaver
Communications Plan Meeting 03/16/1984

Long Range Communications Meeting
12/11/1984

Communications Plan Meeting with Deaver and Bailey 04/06/1984

Ryan Communications Scheduling Themes

A Message from President Reagan to
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (Videocassette – Stored